This is an interesting strategy by Facebook. Many users only really like Facebook's messaging capability, which means that the features of the main site are staying in the original app, while private chats are directed to Messenger.

This means many people will simply use Messenger and that's it. I don't get the business case for doing that, but then again I've been impressed with some of the deicsions Facebook has made to take risks and innovate.

As InformationWeek Government readers were busy firming up their fiscal year 2015 budgets, we asked them to rate more than 30 IT initiatives in terms of importance and current leadership focus. No surprise, among more than 30 options, security is No. 1. After that, things get less predictable.